“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.”
Haile Selassie

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Nine Year Old Leads Five Police Departments On High Speed Chase

Since this didn't end in tragedy we can label it as "funny." Eighty miles an hour? The Star reports:

A 9-year-old Greenfield boy who led cops on a chase today took to the wheel because he wanted to stay out later to play with his friends, police said.

“He was upset because he had to come in,” said Derek Towle, deputy chief of the Greenfield Police Department.

According to Towle, the parents of the boy told police he was told he had to be home at 8 p.m. and he wasn’t happy. The boy went home, showered and was put to bed before he snuck out of the house with a set of car keys he took from his mother’s purse along, with $1 and a cell phone.

The parents didn’t find out the boy had taken 2005 silver Chevrolet Aveo until police called to notify them from the cell phone the boy took earlier.

At 11:30 p.m. Saturday, police got a call of a possible drunk driver who was swerving on U.S. 40.

The boy led five police departments from Greenfield, Knightstown, Hancock County, Henry County and the Indiana Conservation Department on the chase for about a half an hour before he was finally stopped about two miles west of Knightstown.“He was on his way out of town,” Towle said. “Evidently, he didn’t want to be home.”

Police described the boy as 4 foot 3 inches tall and weighing 62 pounds. “That’s why we got the call that there was a drunk driver because he was having a hard time negotiating the car,” Towle said. He said there’s no history of the boy ever driving a car said the boy has been treated for depression and attention deficit disorder.

The boy was arrested for fleeing law enforcement and faces charges. Towle said officials hope to get the boy to counseling.

The boy crossed the median on U.S. 40 and was heading east on the west bound lanes at about 80 miles per hour at least twice during the chase, Towle said.

About Me

I have been an attorney since the Fall of 1987. I have worked in every branch of government, including a stint as a Deputy Attorney General, a clerk for a judge on the Indiana Court of Appeals, and I have worked three sessions at the Indiana State Senate.
During my time as a lawyer, I have worked not only in various government positions, but also in private practice as a trial attorney handing an assortment of mostly civil cases.
I have also been politically active and run this blog in an effort to add my voice to those calling for reform.